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Windsor Arnold Hosmer papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Arch GA 38.10
Overview:

Papers include Windsor Arnold Hosmer's professional correspondence (1948-1960), manuscripts (1955-1958 and undated), and business records (1954-1962).

Francis W. Winn ledger

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:1851-1856 W776
Scope and Contents: The ledger primarily records weaving, spinning, and dyeing from 1851 to 1856, but also includes other labor such as night watchman duties and delivering textiles. The work was done by the piece, women doing the weaving, men the spinning and dyeing. The ledger is organized alphabetically by worker. Women weavers were paid by the piece in cash and in provisions from the store. The accounts show that the woolen factory purchased wool, oil, soap, and dyestuffs from H. Holcomb of Limerick, New...

Henry R. Winthrop papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:83 1840-1843 W791
Scope and Contents: The volume consists primarily of bound protests forms signed by Henry R. Winthrop, for demand of payment of promissory notes, bills of exchange, or order for the payment of monies certified by Winthrop under his official seal as Notary Public of New York, New York. Protests signed by Winthrop are in the first half of the volume, while the latter half consists of pre-printed protests that were not filled in by or signed by Winthrop. On the back page of each protest is a handwritten note,...

Winthrop Mills records

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:446 1865-1935 W791
Overview:

The Winthrop Mills records collects material from a woolen manufacturing company based in Winthrop, Maine that specialized in the manufacture of blankets. The records include administrative, financial, and production recors as well as records related to acquisition of other companies, and the liquidation of Winthrop Mills in the 1930s.

William Witherle business records

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:77 1806-1892 W
Scope and Contents:

A nearly complete run of account books and ledgers of the general store, 1806-1892. Also included are records of the Castine Brick Company, 1866-1881, in which the Witherles were interested. There is also considerable material on the fishing industry, the outfitting of fishermen, the importation of salt, particularly from Cadiz and Liverpool, and shipping and shipbuilding.

Charles C. Withers papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Arch GA 94.7
Scope and Contents: The papers of Charles C. Withers, HBS Lecturer in Business Policy, and President of Towle Manufacturing Company (1950-1957) cover the period from his undergraduate years until his death. The bulk of the material fall within the years of his employment at Towle and HBS. The records contain prospectus, correspondence, teaching material, memoranda, directives, minutes, ephemera, schedules, publications, questionnaires, by-laws, reports, photographs, reviews and speeches. These...

Woburn, Massachusetts mortgage record book

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:926 1834-1838 W837
Overview:

The Woburn, Massachusetts mortgage record book, dated 1834 to 1838, contains records of mortgages of personal property.

Wood Livestock Company annual statement

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:15 1914 W
Scope and Contents: Annual statement includes the November 1914 monthly statement (pp. 1-39), statistical and comparative data (pp. 40-60), November 30 closing inventory (pp. 61-90), and December 1 opening statements (pp. 91-96). Information pertains to properties, material and supplies, construction, cost of boarding to blacksmith and repair. Operating expenses for Peterson, Gentry, Woodie, Neville, Henderson, Dunn, McDowell, sheep outfits as well as the Henderson, Cartier, Pah Samaroi, Birch Creek, Menan,...

Woodbridge and Backus families business records

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:77 1754-1890 B126
Overview:

The Woodbridge and Backus families of Norwich, Connecticut, engaged in international and coastwise shipping and trade of commodities like iron, rum, molasses, tobacco, and sugar. The Woodbridge and Backus families business records date from 1725 to 1896 and consist of legal and estate papers, financial records, correspondence, and genealogical research.

William White Woodbury letters

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1847-1853 W
Scope and Contents:

Letters written to Portland, Maine based merchant William W. Woodbury concerning the movement of ships, cargo, and the shipment of goods, specifically molasses and sugar. Woodbury imported molasses from Cuba and resold it to various merchants in the United States.

Woodstock Railroad Company records

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:724 1863-1933
Overview:

The Woodstock Railroad Company records document a short-line railroad running from Woodstock to White River Junction, Vermont that operated from 1875 to 1933.

Arthur Vernon Woodworth papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Arch GA 95
Overview:

This collection documents the teaching career of Harvard Business School professor, Arthur Vernon Woodworth, and contains lectures, correspondence, student records, research materials, notes and other course materials.

Worcester Cotton Manufactory account book

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:442 1789-1791 W922
Scope and Contents: Daybook of the Worcester (Mass.) Cotton Manufactory, documenting investments, dividends, and factory expenses from 1789 to 1791. The volume contains accounts of shareholders in the Manufactory, among them printer Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831), merchant Daniel Waldo (1763-1845), and Levi Lincoln (1749-1820; Harvard AB 1772), Massachusetts governor and United States Attorney General under Thomas Jefferson. There are also records of expenditures for supplies and equipment, and hiring tradesmen to...

Elmer H. Worthington papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Arch DC 1943
Scope and Contents:

Collection contains two items documenting Worthington's participation in the second session of the Engineering, Science, and Management War training program (ESMWT): a photograph of the retraining class and faculty and a certificate for participation in the program. Collection also includes a certificate Worthington received for becoming an Assistant Scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America.

Aaron Wright records

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:486 1822-1851 W947
Scope and Contents: A daybook and ledger for the transactions of the farmer Aaron Wright, while living in Dutchess County, New York. It covers years from 1822 to 1851, but was most heavily used in the 1820s. The first half is the day book, recording the details of exchanges in chronological order. The first fifty pages are filled. Most of the exchanges involve labor, farm equipment, and farm animals. Wright’s customers include several relatives, such as his brothers Peter and Isaac, and his brother-in-law...

Wright, Brown, Quinby and May records

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:831 1881 (1873)-1950 W947
Overview:

The Wright, Brown, Quinby and May records document a firm of patent attorneys in Boston, Massachusetts, from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century, including records and ledgers, journals, cash books and other accounts.

Wyer Groves Sargent journals

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:77 1845-1900 S245
Scope and Contents: This collection consists of typescripts of Wyer Groves Sargent's journals, kept between 1845 and 1900. The journals record Sargent's day to day life as a merchant running a family store in Sargentville, Maine. He traveled extensively to buy and sell goods, but was especially active along the New England coast. His diary mostly focuses on his business, but includes details of births, deaths, weather, and current events. Also included is a short story written by Ruth Kimball Messinger...

Yousuf Karsh portraits of Harvard Business School faculty

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Arch P2
Overview:

The collection consists of twenty-four portrait photographs of Harvard Business School faculty members taken by noted photographer Yousuf Karsh.

Theresa Layman Zajac papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:583 1927-1985
Scope and Contents: The collection consists primarily of articles about Theresa Layman Zajac and the Hawthorne Studies in employee-oriented publications issued by the Western Electric Company. Some of the publications contain reproductions of photographs of the RATR or of Zajac at commemorative events. One of her pay stubs from 1927 is included. A videotaped interview from September 9, 1983 with Theresa Layman Zajac and other participants from the RATR is also included. The taped discussions include insights...

Abraham Zaleznik papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Arch GA 98.5
Overview:

Teaching materials, research, writings, consulting, correspondence, and subject files of Harvard Business School professor Abraham Zaleznik, 1945-2007.

Zeph Sampson and Charles Wells daybook

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:713 1813-1817 S192
Scope and Contents:

Daybook kept by masons and bricklayers Zeph Sampson and Charles Wells of Boston, Massachusetts from 1813 to 1817. Entries include charges to clients for building chimneys and brick walls, fixing fireplaces, laying brick and stone walkways, and setting window frames. Charges also include mortar, stone and gravel, and whitewashing.

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